4LP Box Set Of Early Recordings From American Punk Underground Legends!
Remastered From Original Board Tapes, Demos & Session Masters!
Includes 47 Previously Unissued Songs, Hardbound Book With Never-Before-Seen Photos & More!
Experience the punishing sonic origins of a punk icon. Collected here for the first time, and skillfully remastered from original board tapes, demos, and session masters, this collection is an authoritative chronicling of the wellspring and maturation of Grant Hart, Greg Norton and Bob Mouldthree Minneapolis teenagers who'd go on to become the most heralded trio of the American punk underground.
Follow the Hüskers to their earliest gigs in 1979, through extensive road dog touring, and to the start of their partnership with West Coast tastemaker SST in 1983. This primitive stage in the fabled career of Hüsker Dü is presented as a deluxe box set and packaged with a hardbound book crammed full of never before seen photos, flyers, and a sprawling essay with participation from the band. Spread across four LPs, 47 of the 69 songs compiled here are previously unissued. Also included are all the band's 7-inch singles from that time, such as "Statues/Amusement" and "In A Free Land"; a new remaster of Hüsker Dü's sophomore full-length, 1983's Everything Falls Apart; and an alternate recording of their 1982 debut, Land Speed Record.
"We created this blistering wall of soundbright white radio static with occasional melody." Bob Mould
"It was like rolling down a hill aware of the bumps, but focusing on blowing people's minds and completely wearing out the audience." Grant Hart
"We didn't know what hardcore was. We just got up there and played real fast and loud." Greg Norton
"No one who loves punk should live without the Hüsker Dü catalog. With the exception of Bad Brains, no hardcore band of the early '80s played faster or with more bite, and not even Bad Brains wrote better tunes and hardcore was only the beginning of Hüsker Dü's range. From 1982 to 1987, the band issued seven superb albums (counting 1983's Metal Circus 12-inch EP, their first for SST) that remained louder than hell while exploring everything from folk to psychedelia to pure pop albeit as heard through a lint filter much of the time. This November, Numero will be releasing Savage Young Dü... and all of it sounds incredible even the cruddiest source material rings through with maximal volume and clarity." - Michaelangelo Matos, NPR
Features:
4LP Deluxe Box Set
Tip on jackets
144-page hardcover book
Linen-finished slipcase
69 songs, 47 previously unissued
Flyerography
40 previously unpublished photographs
12,000 word essay by Erin Osmon with participation from the band
Sessionography by Paul Hilcoff
Remastered from the original analog tapes
Selections:
Side A:
1. Do You Remember?
2. Sore Eyes
3. Can't See You Anymore
4. Picture Of You
5. The Truth Hurts
6. Do The Bee
7. Nuclear Nightmare
8. All I've Got To Lose Is You
Side B:
1. Chinese Rocks
2. Uncle Ron
3. Data Control
4. Insects Rule The World
5. You're Too Obtuse
6. Outside
7. Sexual Economics
8. What Went Wrong?
Side C:
1. Statues
2. Amusement
3. Writer's Cramp
4. Let's Go Die
5. Walk With The Wounded
6. Industrial Grocery Store
Side D:
1. Drug Party
2. Call On Me
3. Termination
4. I'm Tired Of Doing Things
5. Stick It To Me
6. Wheels
Side E:
1. All Tensed Up
2. Don't Try To Call
3. I'm Not Interested
4. Guns At My School
5. Push The Button
6. Gilligan's Island
7. MTC
8. Don't Have A Life
9. You're Naïve
10. Strange Week
11. Big Sky
12. Ultracore
13. Let's Go Die (Live
Side F:
1. Won't Say A Word
2. Don't Try It
3. Private Hell
4. Diane
5. Sex Dolls
6. In A Free Land
7. What Do I Want?
8. M.I.C.
9. Target (In A Free Land Session)
10. Signals From Above (In A Free Land Session)
Side G:
1. From The Gut
2. Blah, Blah, Blah
3. Punch Drunk
4. Bricklayer
5. Afraid Of Being Wrong
6. Sunshine Superman
7. Signals From Above
8. Everything Falls Apart
9. Wheels
10. Target
11. Obnoxious
12. Gravity
Side H:
1. Do You Remember? (Live)
2. Travel In Opposite Car
3. It's Not Funny Anymore
4. Real World
5. Out On A Limb
6. It's Not Fair
Remastered From Original Board Tapes, Demos & Session Masters!
Includes 47 Previously Unissued Songs, Hardbound Book With Never-Before-Seen Photos & More!
Experience the punishing sonic origins of a punk icon. Collected here for the first time, and skillfully remastered from original board tapes, demos, and session masters, this collection is an authoritative chronicling of the wellspring and maturation of Grant Hart, Greg Norton and Bob Mouldthree Minneapolis teenagers who'd go on to become the most heralded trio of the American punk underground.
Follow the Hüskers to their earliest gigs in 1979, through extensive road dog touring, and to the start of their partnership with West Coast tastemaker SST in 1983. This primitive stage in the fabled career of Hüsker Dü is presented as a deluxe box set and packaged with a hardbound book crammed full of never before seen photos, flyers, and a sprawling essay with participation from the band. Spread across four LPs, 47 of the 69 songs compiled here are previously unissued. Also included are all the band's 7-inch singles from that time, such as "Statues/Amusement" and "In A Free Land"; a new remaster of Hüsker Dü's sophomore full-length, 1983's Everything Falls Apart; and an alternate recording of their 1982 debut, Land Speed Record.
"We created this blistering wall of soundbright white radio static with occasional melody." Bob Mould
"It was like rolling down a hill aware of the bumps, but focusing on blowing people's minds and completely wearing out the audience." Grant Hart
"We didn't know what hardcore was. We just got up there and played real fast and loud." Greg Norton
"No one who loves punk should live without the Hüsker Dü catalog. With the exception of Bad Brains, no hardcore band of the early '80s played faster or with more bite, and not even Bad Brains wrote better tunes and hardcore was only the beginning of Hüsker Dü's range. From 1982 to 1987, the band issued seven superb albums (counting 1983's Metal Circus 12-inch EP, their first for SST) that remained louder than hell while exploring everything from folk to psychedelia to pure pop albeit as heard through a lint filter much of the time. This November, Numero will be releasing Savage Young Dü... and all of it sounds incredible even the cruddiest source material rings through with maximal volume and clarity." - Michaelangelo Matos, NPR
Features:
4LP Deluxe Box Set
Tip on jackets
144-page hardcover book
Linen-finished slipcase
69 songs, 47 previously unissued
Flyerography
40 previously unpublished photographs
12,000 word essay by Erin Osmon with participation from the band
Sessionography by Paul Hilcoff
Remastered from the original analog tapes
Selections:
Side A:
1. Do You Remember?
2. Sore Eyes
3. Can't See You Anymore
4. Picture Of You
5. The Truth Hurts
6. Do The Bee
7. Nuclear Nightmare
8. All I've Got To Lose Is You
Side B:
1. Chinese Rocks
2. Uncle Ron
3. Data Control
4. Insects Rule The World
5. You're Too Obtuse
6. Outside
7. Sexual Economics
8. What Went Wrong?
Side C:
1. Statues
2. Amusement
3. Writer's Cramp
4. Let's Go Die
5. Walk With The Wounded
6. Industrial Grocery Store
Side D:
1. Drug Party
2. Call On Me
3. Termination
4. I'm Tired Of Doing Things
5. Stick It To Me
6. Wheels
Side E:
1. All Tensed Up
2. Don't Try To Call
3. I'm Not Interested
4. Guns At My School
5. Push The Button
6. Gilligan's Island
7. MTC
8. Don't Have A Life
9. You're Naïve
10. Strange Week
11. Big Sky
12. Ultracore
13. Let's Go Die (Live
Side F:
1. Won't Say A Word
2. Don't Try It
3. Private Hell
4. Diane
5. Sex Dolls
6. In A Free Land
7. What Do I Want?
8. M.I.C.
9. Target (In A Free Land Session)
10. Signals From Above (In A Free Land Session)
Side G:
1. From The Gut
2. Blah, Blah, Blah
3. Punch Drunk
4. Bricklayer
5. Afraid Of Being Wrong
6. Sunshine Superman
7. Signals From Above
8. Everything Falls Apart
9. Wheels
10. Target
11. Obnoxious
12. Gravity
Side H:
1. Do You Remember? (Live)
2. Travel In Opposite Car
3. It's Not Funny Anymore
4. Real World
5. Out On A Limb
6. It's Not Fair
